Phlebocarya pilosissima
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| image = Phlebocarya pilosissima medialib.naturalis.nl file id L.1470419 format large.jpg
| taxon = Phlebocarya pilosissima
| authority =(F.Muell.) Benth.{{cite journal | title = CXXIII. Amaryllideae
| author = Bentham, G. | author-link = George Bentham
| journal = Flora Australiensis | via = BHL
| year = 1873 | volume = 6 | page = 425
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12247409
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| range_map_caption = occurrence data from AVH
| synonyms = Phlebocarya ciliata var. pilosissima {{small|F.Muell.}}
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Phlebocarya pilosissima is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family,{{APNI2|id=81766|name=Phlebocarya pilosissima}}
native to Western Australia.{{Cite web |title=Phlebocarya pilosissima (F.Muell.) Benth. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |website=Plants of the World Online |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:101845-3 |access-date=2021-04-09}}
Description
Phlebocarya pilosissima has flattened to terete leaves. The leaf blade is 14-35 cm by 0.6-2 mm. Leaf surfaces can be smooth to densely covered with sharp rigid bristly hairs (and on the margins). The flower heads vary from being about half as long to longer than the leaves. The scape is hairy and the bracts have branched hairs along the margin, while the pedicels are densely hairy. The style is trifid and there are three stigmas.{{cite book |author=T.D.Macfarlane |author-link=Terry Desmond Macfarlane |year=2020 |chapter=Phlebocarya pilosissima |title=Flora of Australia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment |location=Canberra |chapter-url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Phlebocarya%20pilosissima |access-date=2021-04-09}}
Taxonomy & etymology
The plant was first described as Phlebocarya ciliata var pilosissima by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1873,{{cite journal |author=Mueller, F.J.H. von |author-link=Ferdinand von Mueller |year=1873 |title=Haemodoraceae |journal=Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae |volume=8 |issue=59 |page=23 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/765053 |via=BHL}}
but later in 1873 George Bentham erected it to the species Phlebocarya pilosissima. The species epithet, pilosissima, comes from the Latin, pilus ("hair"){{Cite Q|Q101497897|pages=467, 98}}
which gives the adjective, pilosus,{{Cite web |title=pilosus,-a,-um |website=www.plantillustrations.org |url=http://www.plantillustrations.org/epithet.php?id_epithet=204132 |access-date=2021-04-10}}
and its superlative, pilosissima, thus describing the plant as being the "hairiest".
References
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External links
- [https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Phlebocarya+pilosissima#tab_mapView Phlebocarya pilosissima occurrence data] from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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Category:Flora of Western Australia
Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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